Arizona politics are in a state of turmoil right now, and lawsuits are flying. The situation has turned nasty quite quickly.

According to JustTheNews, Arizona's Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes and Arizona Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva both sued the House of Representatives this week.

The lawsuits are due to claims that the House of Representatives is purposely not swearing in Grijalva due to political reasons.

Mayes' lawsuit came to fruition this week after previously threatening to take such legal action when speaking to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) last week.

What's going on?

The House is reportedly not in a "regular session," preventing the swearing-in of the elected lawmaker, who won a special election for the seat last month.

"This case is about whether someone duly elected to the House – who indisputably meets the constitutional qualifications of the office – may be denied her rightful office simply because the Speaker has decided to keep the House out of “regular session," AG Mayes wrote in the lawsuit.

She added, "If the Speaker were granted that authority, he could thwart the peoples’ choice of who should represent them in Congress by denying them representation for a significant portion of the two-year term provided by the Constitution

"Fortunately, the Constitution does not give that authority to the Speaker—or anyone else."

While Republicans argue otherwise, critics of Johnson and the Republican-led House say that the move is intentional and related to the release of Epstein files.

JustTheNews noted:

Critics of Johnson have accused him of not swearing Grijalva in because she would give Democrats enough support to force a vote on a bipartisan resolution that would require the Justice Department to release files regarding Jeffrey Epstein.

Johnson responds

As far as Speaker Johnson is concerned, the elected lawmaker will eventually be sworn in when the government reopens and Congress returns to a normal state.

He denied that not swearing her in was a strategy to block the party from having enough votes to force the release of more Epstein-related files by the DOJ.

There's seemingly no end in sight for the end of the shutdown, as Senate Democrats once again blocked the reopening. This time, for the 12th time.

It'll be interesting to see if the lawsuit gets anywhere and forces Johnson to swear her in.